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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Painting: Chaos Marines Tutorial

Good (insert appropriate daytime or evening greeting here) everybody! Dr Bacon here form Mini Monsterpieces ready to show you a quick tutorial on painting...

CHAOS MARINES!!!!

Ok so here we go...Whenever im painting an army I like to paint in batches, so
we shall start out with a group of regular chaos marines, primed with army painter "ultramarines blue" because my chaos marines are as you may have guessed: alpha legion marines ( if
your not familiar with the legion I suggest reading their lore however I sadly
have no time today for history lessons, needless to say though these guys rock!)

Continuing on then I m making alpha legion marines and I want
them in a somewhat darker style then gw paints theirs up ( I love the look of
gw’s paint job I just wanted something darker)

So to really start these guys off I used this generic green
paint you can get at any walmart to selectively paint the group, just aim at
the top of the entire group and get a
nice smooth coat on where the light would hit if it were directly over them.

For the rest of the tutorial ive chosen bone-head Phil here
to be the chosen first of the marines to be painted, ive chosen a reaper 3/0
and a 20/0 as well as a citadel medium
drybrush to do all the work on this piece

First we start with leadbelcher and block out all the areas
we want to have this nice dark metal, the shoulderpads, chest piece, legs, chainsword and
backpack bits.

Then jump over to abaddon black for the leg and arm bends,
the bolter, and under the chest.

Next I used scortched brown for the belt and fur on the end
of the chainsword as well as the grip on the hilt.

Ok so I want to make the exaust vents on the bottom of the backpack
appear scortched and the piping to look as if phil is glowing with a hellish
chaotic fire under the cold blue of his armour, the vents were first painted
with scortched brown then the ends covered with a heavy dry-brushing of abaddon
black. The backpack pipes I needed to make much lighter then the blue I primed
with so I covered them with ceramite white then orange so the orange would be
nice and bright without having to put it on heavy.

*painters pro proverb # 6 “tis better to paint thin layers
and build up then to paint a heavy coat and ruin a great piece right off the
bat”

After the orange I drybrushed about ¾ of the pipe with flash
gitz yellow then a slightly smaller portion of the now yellow part with scar
white to really make it glow.

I want something to
make my alpha legionares a little different and even more dark I thought, so
after my fire painting was complete I chose
one of my personal favorite colours, warplock bronze, to touch up various metal bits all over the
body and add an extra edge of dark to the model.

Moving on we use
shining gold for the bolts in my custom dual feed bolter (yes mini monster pieces
does conversions too!) and then shaded the entire model with badab black

Now the eyes I thought, cold eyes

Ice blue sounded cold enough to be the base of the eyes so that’s
exactly what I used.

Dotted with an even colder bit of white scar they truly glow
with a cold hate akin to only those who know chaos.

A little freehand with my fire colors on the chainsword and
the model tutorial is complete!